We currently do fake. We had done live for years, buying from a local tree farm. But when the tree farm was shut down, we decided that it did not make sense to buy a tree brought in on a truck every year, as the eco-friendly factor of buying a tree from a farm was cancelled out by shipping on a truck. So we bought a fake tree and have used it ever since. I believe we are on Christmas 7 or 8 (or maybe more) with this particular tree.